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Showing 1 to 20 of 206 for “"Education, Language and Literature"”.
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Seeking the center frame: A case study of leadership in two Chicago suburban high school writing centers.
Seeking the center frame: A case study of leadership in two Chicago suburban high school writing centers.
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Tensions, negotiations, and practice: The complexity of writing instruction in bilingual classrooms.
Tensions, negotiations, and practice: The complexity of writing instruction in bilingual classrooms.
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Formulaic language in speech fluency development in English as a second language
… is an investigation of the role of formulaic language in second language (L2) speech fluency development, within a cognitive and information processing framework. Fluency has been studied and defined in terms of temporal variables of speech such as rate of speech, pause frequency and …
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Vocabulary comprehension of advanced ESL learners in academic reading: A collective case study
… their vocabulary comprehension strategies, and word retention rates. For data collection, the participants' vocabulary sizes were measured. Also, they were asked to record unfamiliar words that they encountered. Two interviews were also carried out. Finally, a vocabulary achievement test was …
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Essayons: French as a Second Language Teacher Beliefs and Experiences of Technology-Enhanced Practices
… the context of Canadian French as a Second Language (FSL) teachers in recent years (Lapkin, Mady, & Arnott, 2009; Lawrence, 2014). By considering how practicing FSL teachers in Alberta experience the integration of technology in second language learning, I sought to contribute a current …
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The Journey of Nine Sixth Graders: From Struggling Readers to Strategic Readers
… of equity such as, explicit strategy instruction and performance assessment in order to provide an opportunity for all students to learn. Teachers also should provide structures for independent reading of self-selected materials.
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Validation of a German Language Placement Test Based on a Modified C -Test Procedure
… enhanced linkage to the department's curriculum, and (b) psychometric qualities such as reliability of test scores were not materially affected by the modifications. The study concluded that a modified C-test procedure might be an effective language testing procedure that is more compatible with …
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The Effect of Exposure Frequency and Reading Comprehension on Incidental Vocabulary Acquisition and Retention Through Reading for Learners of German as a Foreign Language
The results indicated that intermediate language learners acquire a significant amount of vocabulary incidentally during reading after only two exposures, and that receptive as well as productive gains are moderately to strongly related to learners' text comprehension. It was further found that two …
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The Acoustics of Identity: Linguistic Passports Beyond Empire and Essentialism
… from the case studies, the author argues: (1) Standard American English (SAE) is not neutral, but rather clearly associated with a professional, educated, ""white,"" US-American, middle class experience; (2) Even more so than grammatical knowledge, the mastery of an accent (phonological …
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The Effect of Textual Enhancement on Second Language Learner Reading Comprehension and Form Recognition
Research in second language acquisition has established that some sort of focus on form may be beneficial to adult second language learners. One type of focus on form that has received attention is textual enhancement. The instructor attempts to draw the learner's attention to specific forms by …
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Second Language Comprehension and Processing Grammatical Form: The Effects of Topic Familiarity, Mode, and Pausing
… second principle of input processing, second language (L2) learners are able to process grammatical form in the input only if they are able to process the informational content at little cost to attentional resources. Using this principle of input processing as a point of departure, this study …
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The Longitudinal Role of Working Memory on Adult Acquisition of L2 Grammar
… differences among subjects with low, medium and high WM span, and can be explained along several lines: methodological limitations of the tests (grammar tests and the reading span test); the domain specificity hypothesis; the processing efficiency hypothesis; and the less is more hypothesis.
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The Relative Effects of Processing Instruction and Meaning -Based Output Instruction on L2 Acquisition of the Spanish Subjunctive
MOI is unlike traditional output-based instruction in that it does not carry a mechanical component. In addition, MOI provides incidental input to learners that is focused on the target item. These issues are discussed as the most plausible explanations for the results that differ from previous …
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The Impact of Topic Familiarity, L2 Reading Proficiency, and L2 Passage Sight Vocabulary on Incidental Vocabulary Gain Through Reading for Adult Learners of Spanish as a Foreign Language
… passage sight vocabulary, (c) topic familiarity, and (d) course level. A secondary question investigated the presence of any story level effects on gain. Participants were 99 university students studying Spanish as an L2 at the beginning, intermediate, and advanced levels. Pretests included (a) a …
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"Universal Semantic Primes, and Their Application to French Monolingual and English -French Bilingual Lexicography: English Spatial Prepositions By, on and Into in French Translations of ""Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"""
… incorporating in the system other SPs from the literature.
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The Role of Focused Input on the Acquisition of Tense and *Aspect by L2 Learners of French
… aspect on intermediate learners' use of tense and aspect. An important implication of this study is that the semantic complexity of the imperfect combined with the inherent semantic value of verbs affected learners' performance. Further testing is needed to investigate the effect of input that …
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The Integration of Focus-on-Form Instruction Within Culture -Based Lessons: Its Effects on Students' Knowledge on Vocabulary, Grammar, and Culture in 2nd- and 3rd -Semester French Courses
… was used among teachers when providing direct and delayed translations, and feedback to their students. In terms of the quantitative analysis, the results showed that the planned focus-on-form group performed better on components such as vocabulary and grammar. The findings are discussed in …
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